Gasly dethrones Sirotkin on Day 2 in Barcelona

Red Bull junior Pierre Gasly topped the timesheets on Day 2 of GP2 pre-season testing in Barcelona, demoting Day 1 pacesetter Sergey Sirotkin with a late lap.

Sirotkin set a 1m27.971s early in the morning session - at that point the best lap around Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya for a Dallara GP2/11.

Just as on Wednesday, Gasly was second in that session but he managed to take almost three tenths off Sirotkin's time in the afternoon, with a 1m27.703s.

Racing Engineering teammates Jordan King and Norman Nato were third and fourth in the morning, close behind Gasly.

Raffaele Marciello completed the top five, two tenths up on sixth-placed Mitch Evans, the very driver Marciello replaced at Russian Time.

King was then runner-up in the afternoon, a full second down on Gasly's benchmark, and with Arthur Pic grabbing a late third ahead of newcomer Antonio Giovinazzi, who brought out one of the day's red flags, and Daniel de Jong.

Carlin, which has just announced it's bowed out of 3.5 to focus on GP2, had a strong day, with both newcomer Rene Binder and confirmed driver Marvin Kirchhofer in the top 10.

Status, which skipped Day 1, was 15th overall with Sergio Canamasas and 23rd with Meindert van Buuren.

Day 2 results

Pos.	Driver	Team	AM	PM
1	Pierre Gasly	Prema Racing	1:28.084	1:27.703
2	Sergey Sirotkin	ART Grand Prix	1:27.971	1:32.966
3	Jordan King	Racing Engineering	1:28.093	1:28.779
4	Norman Nato	Racing Engineering	1:28.106	1:34.948
5	Raffaele Marciello	Russian Time	1:28.194	1:33.969
6	Mitch Evans	Campos Racing	1:28.403	1:33.700
7	Rene Binder	Carlin	1:28.591	1:29.616
8	Arthur Pic	Rapax	1:29.717	1:28.827
9	Marvin Kirchhofer	Carlin	1:28.862	1:29.991
10	Artem Markelov	Russian Time	1:28.871	1:30.732
11	Luca Ghiotto	Trident	1:28.873	1:29.879
12	Nobuharu Matshushita	ART Grand Prix	1:28.890	1:33.471
13	Daniel de Jong	MP Motorsport	1:28.902	1:29.130
14	Antonio Giovinazzi	Prema Racing	1:32.023	1:29.023
15	Sergio Canamasas	Status Grand Prix	1:29.103	1:30.063
16	Gustav Malja	Rapax	1:29.115	1:29.794
17	Oliver Rowland	MP Motorsport	1:29.229	1:29.198
18	Jimmy Eriksson	Arden International	1:29.204	1:29.632
19	Sean Gelael	Campos Racing	1:29.353	1:34.727
20	Philo Paz Armand	Trident	1:30.143	1:31.739
21	Nabil Jeffri	Arden International	1:30.223	1:30.957
22	Alex Lynn	DAMS	1:34.714	1:30.574
23	Meindert van Buuren	Status Grand Prix	1:32.077	1:32.700
24	Nicholas Latifi	DAMS	1:33.952	1:34.478